Dear Luckey: The Rise Of Amateur Porn Sites..

What are your thoughts on the popularity of amateur porn content sites like connectpal & onlyfans? Do they constitute another significant blow to the black gay porn industry, like what torrenting did? Also, what about their profitability, are content providers making more than they would with a major studio?

Vaughn

Dear Vaughn,

Amateur content has been around for years now but it wasn’t on the same level as a legitimate porn studio until recent. Back in the day, porn content creators could upload their sex clips onto sites like Xtube and make a couple of dollars (Of course, Xtube takes a percentage). Now thanks to social media and the internet, we have sites like Pornhub in which you could make money uploading original content or you can use sites like Connectpal & OnlyFans, but there is still a percentage that is deducted.

Not to mention, we have sites like FeelTheWrath, DeepSmashedATL, RawFreaks.com & BestKeptSecret in which faces are often concealed to protect the models (not everyone wants to be a known porn “star”). Those sites are catered to those who really don’t give a fuck about the faces or names of the models in the video. They not really here for the fake storylines and bad acting. They just want it straight and to the point fucking.

I do think porn producers are now having to compete with amateur content and if you been noticing established models like Knight, Romance & Kash Dinero have been working with both mainstream and amateur sites respectfully. I believe Romance has his own amateur porn site now.

With any porn content, one will experience piracy. It’s just something that is never going to go away. The only way to make a major profit off content is to host your own site and process your own payments from customers. Find a way to cut out the middleman but even with hosting your own site, people are not buying memberships like they use to. Your content is only as good as the last…just the way it is now.